EGAVE

odal

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
  2. noun The ownership and claim of such land.
  3. noun A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.
  4. adjective Of or relating to odal land.
  5. adjective Of or relating to an ode or odes.
  6. noun A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.

Similar words

udal udaler folkland danelagh danelaw eorl elfdalian old norse thing folkred

Often followed by

land and lands rights right

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